New Delhi: The Girls Senior Secondary School from Bhiwani sent Bangladesh Krida Shiksha Protishtan (BKSP) packing with a 3-1 verdict to enter the semifinals of the Under-17 Junior Girls Subroto Cup at the Dr. Ambedkar Stadium here today.The Haryana girls will cross swords in the semifinals with Umthli Second School from Meghalaya who beat SAI East Salt Lake from Kolkata 4-3, via penalty shootout after their quarterfinal ended in goalless draw at the end of regulation time.
In the first semifinal to be played on October 8, Nagaland girls will take on NCC while in the second today’s winners will meet.
The Haryana girls who are popular with the crowd did what was expected of them as they kept it as simple as possible striking twice in the first half and adding one more goal in the second to seal the fate of BKSP. Nisha opened the account in the 20th minute and six minutes later Smiksha consolidated before Sushma rounded it off with a clean placing in the 56th minute. BKSP was completely pushed on the back foot as was evident from their approach to the match today.
After the two barren halves, the issue was settled through penalty shootout in which Meghalaya came up trumps asNisha,Phila, Ibashisha and AntihunMajawscored for winners while onlySoni, Suman and Subhadra managed to covert for SAI.
Earlier, the two teams played cautiously and keeping their citadels heavily guarded. Whatever little chance that came were not put into account as the teams were determined not to press hard for a winner in the regulation time.
WHIPPING BOYS
In the U-17 Junior Boys matches, the Defence Services College from Colombo was the favorite whipping boy of every team in pool C as State Sports Academy boys from Dimapur (Nagaland) humbled the visitors 8-1 at NWC grounds. The only consolation for them was that they were able to reduce the margin with a goal from Chethiya in the 23rd minute after the Nagaland boys led 4-0.
In other morning matches in the same pool, MamtaModern School,VikasPuri (Delhi), defeated Gujarat’s Navrachna International School 10-0 with Himanshu (3) and Abhishek (2) being major contributors, while Army Boys Coy, Bangalore, downed St Javier Higher Secondary School from Chhattisgarh 6-1—Dip Majumdarscored four with a hat-trick. Anand Kumar’s footwork saw Chhattisgarh open cursory account.
In comparison, at Dr. Ambedkar Stadium, Govt. Model Sr. Sec. School from Chandigarh beat Govt. Sr. Sec. School from Lakshadweep 4-1, Elias Higher Sec. School from Meghalaya beat MaharanaPratap Sports College (Uttarakhand) 2-0 and KridaPrabodhini from Pune outwitted IPSC 5-3 in pool A matches.
Though the Modern School boys lost 3-5, they bravely fought until the decisive goals were struck by V. Shelke in the 53rd and 70th minute.
In Pool D, The Air Force School drew 1-1 with Arunachal Pradesh even as the Haryana boys gave a 7-0 thrashing to the Daman school team in Pool B. UtkarshBaisala was the star for the winners again with three strikes.
In other pool matches, Sainik School beat the boys from Tamil Nadu 6-1, with a five-in-a-row featfrom Indra Kumar, Goa beat Jharkhand 2-1, Kerala downed Assam 2-0, West Bengal scored 7-0 win over Madhya Pradesh boys.